Suzhou Creek

Suzhou Creek is an urban river winding through central Shanghai to meet the Huangpu near the northern end of the Bund. Once the industrial artery of the city, its banks were crowded with mills, godowns and wharves whose red-brick warehouses still line parts of the water. From the 2000s the creekside was reclaimed as a walking and cycling promenade, and many old factories became galleries and lofts. Visitors follow the landscaped banks past historic steel bridges and restored industrial buildings reflected in the slow current.